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Trade-concentration and its impact on commerce and traders of a Mexican city
Dannhaeuser, Norbert (contributor) - 2007
This dissertation evaluates the changes in food retailing patterns in the face of openmarkettrends in a medium sized city (Citlalicalli) in central Mexico. This evaluation iscarried out using the model of retail trade-concentration. The following questions areaddressed: whether...
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Informality, productivity, and enforcement in West Africa: A firm level analysis
Benjamin, Nancy; Mbaye, Aly - 2010
of informal businesses. And sample designs are shaped by a narrow and in our view misleading definition of informality as …
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The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows
Bosch, Mariano; Goni, Edwin; Maloney, William - 2006
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from … and Maloney’s (2006) findings for Mexico that the patternsof worker transitions between formality and informality … correspond primarily to the job-to-job dynamics observed in the US and not to the traditional idea of informality constituting …
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Entrepreneurial Entry in Developing Economies: Modeling Interactions Between the Formal and Informal Sector
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - 2007
formal andinformal status. Thus we explore issues such as how informality may enable anentrepreneur to test the profitability …. Also,we show that financial constraints can interact with the option of informality to induceentry. …
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Constraints to informal entrepreneurs in developing countries ; An empirical analysis
Krüger, Jens - 2013
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Report on the Latin American economy. First half of 2020
social tension in the final stretch of last year. Some factors, such as high labour market informality and the improvable …
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Spatial labor markets and the distribution of transaction costs
Clark, Gordon L. - 1983
Incomplete information regarding the location of job offers, their contractual conditions, and tenure prospects typifies US labor markets. Crises of spatial coordination and the allocation of labor demand and supply, amongst other issues, are argued to result from such uncertainties....
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HYSTERESIS IN AN EVOLUTIONARY LABOR MARKET WITH ADAPTIVE SEARCH
Tesfatsion, Leigh - 1999
This study undertakes a systematic experimental investigation of hysteresis (path dependency) in an agent-based computational labor market framework. It is shown that capacity asymmetries between work suppliers and employers can result in two distinct hysteresis effects, network and behavioral,...
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Cost of being a Mexican immigrant and being a Mexican non-citizen in California and Texas
Saenz, Rogelio (contributor) - 2005
The purpose of this thesis is to examine hourly wage differences across differentgroups of Mexican-origin workers. First, I assess the cost of foreign-born status bycomparing the hourly wages of Mexican immigrant workers with those of native-bornMexican American workers. Second, I assess the...
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Labor Market Trends and Institutions in Belarus
Brixiova, Zuzana; Volchok, Vera - 2005
In most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, the transition to market led to the emergence of a private sector and open unemployment. The Belarusian labor market is characterized by low official unemployment, combined with a low share of the private...
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